Renzo Piano

Centre Pompidou (with Richard Rogers, 1977) launched his career and the High-Tech movement. The Menil Collection (Houston, 1987), Kansai Airport (1994), New York Times Building (2007), The Shard (London, 2012).

Italian craftsmanship + Anglo-American structural-expressionism. Every Piano building has a recognisable fascination with light, structural transparency, and detail.

Pritzker laureate 1998. Italian senator-for-life since 2013.